Secrets Of The East

There was many a day as a very young child, that I clambered over and under and around the cannon out front of the Eastern and Oriental Hotel in Penang. There are plenty of cannon still dotted around various locations in Penang, none of which have ever been used in earnest. Fort Cornwallis, not too far from the E & O Hotel, is one of the most well-known cannon emplacements on the island.

Eastern and Oriental Hotel,
aw still a great place!

Penang is an unusual place because technically, it was never any regional Sultan's actual island, and there are genuine cultural ties back in history to China and also to India via fleets from those places in days of the very ancient past.

Up in the hills, almost mountains, in fact, there are religious centers of major significance both to traditional Hindu people and also to Taoist - or at least Shangdi-style Chinese.

Today, when one is apt to hear a wide complaint that the world is becoming flattened, and deliberately flattened too, by out-of-control bureaucracies and mindless, juvenile in the historical sense, mono-cultural materialism, reminding myself of some of the ancient places in Penang is instructive.

The Chinese Temple of Supreme Bliss - but locally and colloquially also known as the 'Snake Temple' (because part of its name contains the word for 'snake') - is something that probably not even that many present-day Penang locals know accurately about. But here is a very fine example of what distinguishes the potential for social and cultural depth that human society possesses - and what the purposes of such depth is.

The Temple of Supreme Bliss -
the superficial temple...

THE actual Snake Temple though, 'She Miao,' is a much smaller, different place nearby, which is specifically and literally a temple to well, not a snake deity, but to something to do with ancient mysterious, seething, gaseous and ever-expanding energies, sometimes deadly, sometimes beneficial. Like all temples, this one goes through its materially up and down phases - and to a large extent, over many years, it has functioned as a kind of a small, open-to-the-public, reptile zoo of sorts, and this has been the means for its commercial basis of survival.

At the moment, it is seeing an 'up' moment, where everything has been extensively refurbished and up-graded; it looks good, especially in the evenings, but not forgetting though, that even in the day-time, the insides are kept rather dark because there are snakes hanging out in the rafters there!

'Something' is burned in the place that keeps the snakes, most of which are particularly deadly, somnolent.

Anyway, strange to tell, the snake image has a fundamental place in the Chinese version of the Adam and Eve story...

And, when the leaders of the ancient world, had lost their way, and become devoid of a moral standard that Heaven could abide, the God of Heaven... ...destroyed them.

Big Data, Small Establishment

I'm sorry that I use so many old fashioned English phrases and styles of speaking. I'm sure there's probably some more modern way of saying 'the numbers of agents employed in the field/behind the desk' - but 'establishment' is the only way I know how to say that in a short form.

Ed Snowden's point that one ought to accept that the NSA has equipment that makes at least 1 trillion guesses a second - say, about your password, for instance - is a good, a very good lesson on 'big data.' There is an irresistible attraction for government to fall in love with the next new thing, and certainly the next big thing, 'big data' being one of its absolute current favourites. Chemical lasers another one,  but that's for another day.

Charlie Hebdo, really?!

What can you do with a machine that makes 1 trillion guesses a second? Well, to really make use of the potential value, one needs another program, or system, at least, that channels questions and answers, like a kind of tree diagram or chart, towards a final strategic goal.

Without such a program or system, the process volume and speeds are just noise.

Of course, it is very tempting to look down upon the modern world of little people from this 'big data' perspective.

For one thing, it does reflect in a realistic way to political leaders, the modern world as it is - lots of people, no individuals, no individual power that can impact on the whole mass... Yep. Big Data is the thing.

Every now and then you get a few anomalous instances in which one or a few people get hold of some really super critical information or knowledge, and then, all you have to do, is eliminate them as active agents of information being spread.

Journalist Don Hale, on his
bike, from where is briefed by MI6,
on what he can say, and what his failure to co-operate,
will cost him.

One has to look at journalists such as Don Hale, or even Julian Assange for that matter, as being hyper-problematic for anyone in power who genuinely has guilty secrets that could not be forgiven by the public at large. I think we tend not to understand though, on account of so much tragic 'drama' in films and news, what a genuinely twisted and long-reaching, guilty secret really is anymore.

They are not anywhere near as simple as, 'oh, here are some pedophiles in government and in the police and the judiciary.' No no no. The media can give the impression that this is what constitutes such vile secrets.

Oh no no no. It's the psychopathic malice, the long-term planning, the cunning, the complex linked chains of ulterior motives. Not just the extent of it in high places and how it has corrupted career police. It's the volcano of degradation and the complexity of the evil that it would expose... It's who and what the primary school teachers are, as much as that these are the places where children are; the latter is merely the obvious.

You know, when an entire senior police force goes headlong into campaigns of deliberate distortion that obliterate people's rights and even their lives, for the sakes of people outside of their own, there is much sin involved. And I'm grateful for Richard Dawkins interpretation, from the scientist's point of view, as to what 'sin' is - I caught a bit of his recent documentary screened on FOX(lol). But he's way out of his depth here. 

Mini Cooper has a new,
preposterous and impractical Augmented Reality
'extra' - beautiful images though. Big organisations are
always deluded by their own arrogance.

Big Data - is the Achilles Heel of modern Western and of course, newly developed other governments. They all think it is the holy grail.

You see, you got to understand about Assange, for example... His background, is basically the same as Diana Spencer's.

The reason he knows stuff is because, well, he knows stuff! Not because he got it from some internet set-up! No. Felix Dennis set him up with the idea, because Felix, is (was) the computer nerd in the first place long before Assange was in short pants. And gave him the money too because he was already a zillionaire in the first place.

It just all turned out to be a gift that keeps on giving, that's all. Wikileaks is a great idea that works for a number of reasons, some of which are really silly, so silly not even 1 trillion guesses would alight upon the correct set. Not that you would know, anyway.

Bank this though - Big Data leads to fewer people on the establishment; and fewer CIA personnel certainly. Frankly, that's not a good thing. 

The Amber Moment

'Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment, there is no why.' Kurt Vonnegut.

I'm sure just the other day I noticed the idiot scion Jacob Rothschild in one of the private boxes at the Vienna State Opera -  just when the great Anna Netrebko re-took to public performances after a suggestion a year ago from some wise head for her to cancel her US appearances right before the Ukraine junta got its ass kicked in Donbass.

Sony's new floating audio speakers
Come in to my place, we have these here (just use your
imagination!) What will we be playing on them - wait till you
get to the bottom of this page...

Can Jacob R. have a single clue about what constitutes artistic beauty? I doubt it.

Of course (though not really 'of course' but all the same,) I was not at the concert physically although I did watch the authorized live streaming pay-for-view channel showing it.

Netrebko's voice has deepened with maturity and is easily one of the stars in the timeless operatic sky now - she exhibits the voice confidence, the diction and phrasing of the complete expert in practice and theory.

In the midst of all of today's ugliness, is there beauty still? I have a small problem in that every now and then I still manage to turn up some old capital that has a dollar value and apart from those, I look around every day and see no outside economic prospects and no economic or 'merchanting' inspiration outside of my own treasure cabinet...

Alina Somova showing tons of plastique

Art is always somewhat of a prostitute to money. I have no doubt that Rothschild J., has met Netrebko in person - these people are usually part of the after-performance soiree. And I hope he gives very generously to things like the Wiener Staatsoper. One is never to know these things, whether such morons suddenly withdraw their cash because of some politics.

I mean, you could be overheard talking about Alina Somova having a ton of plastique in a New York airport and suddenly be arrested and questioned about it! That is the state of education of the lunatics who have wrested power across the worldwide stage and sent the world back into a world at war. No doubt, in Singapore, such would not be the case, since they are all so so very educated there.

Florence and The Machine Cosmic Love - Seven Lions Remix

It's really the Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy at the start, but don't tell.

Get past 1 min 15 secs for the lyrics.

Ah yes. Is there beauty still? Well that depends on whether you are stuck in permanently traditional patterns or whether you can hear the variations in artistic expression.

We are all 'stuck in the amber of the moment.' The dinosaurs provide the resin, and the creatures with wings are preserved. The lizards never had wings and so, they have all died out.

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE LYRICS

"Cosmic Love"

A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

Let's Raise The Stakes

I'm sure you want something from these pages that you can use yourself - something that will really make you some money in this present era of low circulation velocity of the Money Supply.

Well I will try and do that soon, but first, there are one or two small items that need urgent attention.

Richie Benaud died,
so I'm in a hurry (Packer leaves Manhattan Hotel).
Where Strauss-Kahn once was...

Riding high on the US President's very recent warm embrace of the new Cuba (as I told you that he would do about a year ago), Britain's rogue elements of its MI6 and 'cut loose' ex-MI5 operators, are swinging from chandeliers as they insert themselves back into Cuba via their fake 'cigar shops' around the world (but not UK, of course!). And those of you who read here consistently over time will know, I have been harping on about this Cuban thrust for some time and how the UK 'five-star' people have been planning their adventures back into Cuba a la pre F. Castro: 'Jewish mafia' casinos, contraband and unregistered export of cigars, substitution racket alcohol, sex slavery. (That's straight out of an Ian Fleming novel by the way so please don't throw 'anti-Semitic' at me!)

Bearing in mind the not-that-long-ago superlative Mark Ellison QC report on criminal corruption in the highest ranks of the British Special Branch, and the peculiar political misuse of the so-called 'Special Demonstration Squad' - let's be frank - the caught-on-video absurd stupidity of Security and Intelligence leaders like Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw (sent us to war because of 'chemical weapons of mass destruction...') underscores my main point that there are huge and powerful utterly out-of-control private money interests abusing Secret Intelligence and Police Services around the world, and whose main objectives are just plain mercantile theft and fraud and racketeering for personal and private corporate gain. Makes me wonder what politicians have already done for more than just a measly $5,000. Merck and Co, anyone? Anyone? Anyone know what I'm talking about there? Guess not.

Ellison's report was about the covering up of murder, and the strong likelihood that various journalists were murdered to stop them from exposing criminality and sexual impropriety (at best!) high up in government and bureaucracies.

Ah, but you don't see much of Ellison and the follow-up inquiries and charges featuring in much pop news and media, do you?

Nikolai Patrushev

Never mind. But I'd ask you to imagine, let's say, Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia's Security Council, being video-d in a sting asking for $5,000 per half a day's 'work' giving 'access' to government! I think... NOT!

Anyhow...

This is what's happening right now. Apart from the Diamond Disk, core drilling escapade busting into the Hatton Garden 'safety deposit boxes' (a bit Ocean's Eleven, d'you think maybe), these rogue agents and groups are moving in on billionaire James Packer. What we are talking about is a Thatcher-era, virtually mercenary, one-time UK Secret Service bunch of crooks, operating behind fake medical practices and ex-South African law firms now operating in Australasia. Now the simple fact is, they couldn't do any of this if not for the stupid Aussie Federal Police's active co-operation (too stupid to understand that these guys ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS, BOYS).

Billionaire casino boss, James Packer

And so, over the last year or so, they have been shifting slowly into Sydney upper crust society, taking up their positions for the sting on Packer.

Now, those of you who have read here over say the last oh god, years perhaps - what odds do you give that I am wrong, or that poor old James Packer will survive this?

It's the internet world now. Unless someone 'important' asks me or tells me to stop laying all of this out, I'll just keep right on here until people's noses bleed and they all fall over in the ensuing, certain, faint.

...Which ought to give you the clue that there are certain people who are giving me the green light.

Operation 'Old Hat'

The White House hacking story was released - or broke - on the 8th of April.

And you read something suggesting that kind of thing here on the 2nd of April.

I know I shouldn't do this because there are some rules one of which says 'don't harass people who might end up as your opponents.'

The actor Gary Oldman doing a
Spy Master - or analyst's - face

So but what's the actual point of hacking private or at least confidential email and files of people who are in the higher circles of the White House? That's the basic question Russian media is asking in an attempt to cast doubt on suggestions the Russian government has some hand in the recent hackings.

You may recall a so-called 'Operation Aurora' in which the US government accused China and North Korea of hacking US government computers back at that time. Every year a new hacker!

There are two (well three if you include the real objectives) main aspects of the hackings, both of the White House, and currently, of TV5Monde in France.

Firstly, there are the actual people who are doing the hacking (more on this presently).

And secondly, there is the way in which general media releases the stories.

Back to the first aspect - everyone hacks everyone else; yes the Russians do it, and the Chinese, definitely Japan does it as well, the Germans have a system but it doesn't include actual computer and internet hacking of US government files, and the British have a (possibly illegal) backdoor anyway. One particular foreign country has a low latency process straight into US secret computer files and internet traffic.

None of the countries except the last one have the least bit of real access to the mainstream Western media. The CIA's media channels are too well-known for any of this to have been from them.

And so Admiral, apart from the source of info about what you had for dinner last weekend, would you like to understand what this is all about? (I'm sure you do know, but some readers here who are citizens and taxpayers might not).

In the case of a genuine external hacker, they will want to know who in the White House was talking to whom about arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the last year or two. And they will be able to tell simply by observing who jumped when the hack story came out - whether they even actually hacked anyone or not!

And in the case of the supposed Islamic State hacking of a French TV Station - cui bono.

For in this case it wasn't about information as such, it was a 'denial of service' operation. The media has theorized very quickly that Islamic State just wants to irritate and harass the French people and the French media. 

Her ex-boss was given a new identity...
As well as a fake funeral,
but you're not allowed to know that.

What strikes me as completely odd, rather than just report the facts, the media appears hell bent on speculating about who is doing things! North Korea does Sony, Russia does the White House, and Islamic State does French TV. Cases all solved. So there you go, just run along now sonny. No need for the FBI or anything like that; Rupert will tell us right off the bat.

Where is Gerald Ronson, by the way? Does anyone know? What is he up to these days? I see Ed Miliband goes to his charity do's. I wonder whether Gerald and his mates at J. Rothschild will end up with the UK bits of Total. The last time he tried this kind of stuff with his mates he went to jail, but then, European Court judges ended up saying the British Courts and prosecution were all wrong. Just shows what low latency (in this case high up in the various judiciaries) can procure for you and what harm it can do to unsuspecting people like Jesselyn Radack by comparison.

Operation 'Old Hat.' Is that what it's called? Never saw that in any mainstream Western media now did you!